June 26
NEW DELHI - A 15-year-old boy who allegedly delivered a baby by Caesarean section in an attempt to set a world record as the youngest surgeon apparently fled as police prepared to arrest him on Tuesday.
Raj Sekharan, superintendent of police in Tiruchirappalli district in southern Tamil Nadu state, said the boy had absconded and police were looking for him.
On Monday police arrested the parents of Dhileepan Raj, both doctors who supervised their son while he allegedly performed the Caesarean section. They were charged with cheating, forgery of records, endangering human life, concealing evidence and abetting a crime.
The two were jailed pending trial. If convicted, they could be sentenced to up to seven years each.
The Tamil Nadu chapter of the Indian Medical Association said last week that Dr. K. Murugesan showed a video recording of his son performing a Caesarean birth.
The video allegedly showed Murugesan anesthetizing the patient before the boy started the operation in his father's maternity hospital in Manaparai city, said the secretary of the medical association.
Murugesan told the association that he wanted to see his son's name in the Guinness Book of World Records.
A spokeswoman for Guinness World Records, said in an e-mail Guinness does not endorse such attempts because they encourage "bad medicine."
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I,ve heard of a few doogie howsers out there but going outside the law was really dumb and even with supervision a dangerous thing to do for such an idiotic reason! 
QUOTE(swtp @ Jul 3 2007, 03:51 AM) 
I,ve heard of a few doogie howsers out there but going outside the law was really dumb and even with supervision a dangerous thing to do for such an idiotic reason!
It is quite sick actually, very egotistical with absolutely no regard for human life - both old and new
A similar "ego" thing happened with a four year old boy who was trained to do long distance running, part of the training involved taking absolutely NO liquids on board during the run - now some of these runs were more than a 26 mile marathon!!
When during an extremely long run above 40 miles the kiddie collapsed, the Authorities interrupted the proceedings and pulled the kid out of the event - and do you know what the reaction was from one particular Indian man? He was extremely annoyed and said that the boy was a sort of representative of India and should have been allowed to continue (even though he was extremely dehydrated and completely exhausted).
It just makes me totally sick, it is about time some people looked at what is really important instead of always trying to "make a name" for themselves and their families.
Breaking a world record is all very well, but if it means a woman and her newborn child being put in extreme danger, that is just going too far.
QUOTE(Lotus Flower @ Jul 3 2007, 09:31 AM)
It is quite sick actually, very egotistical with absolutely no regard for human life - both old and new
A similar "ego" thing happened with a four year old boy who was trained to do long distance running, part of the training involved taking absolutely NO liquids on board during the run - now some of these runs were more than a 26 mile marathon!!
When during an extremely long run above 40 miles the kiddie collapsed, the Authorities interrupted the proceedings and pulled the kid out of the event - and do you know what the reaction was from one particular Indian man? He was extremely annoyed and said that the boy was a sort of representative of India and should have been allowed to continue (even though he was extremely dehydrated and completely exhausted).
It just makes me totally sick, it is about time some people looked at what is really important instead of always trying to "make a name" for themselves and their families.
Breaking a world record is all very well, but if it means a woman and her newborn child being put in extreme danger, that is just going too far.
A similar "ego" thing happened with a four year old boy who was trained to do long distance running, part of the training involved taking absolutely NO liquids on board during the run - now some of these runs were more than a 26 mile marathon!!
When during an extremely long run above 40 miles the kiddie collapsed, the Authorities interrupted the proceedings and pulled the kid out of the event - and do you know what the reaction was from one particular Indian man? He was extremely annoyed and said that the boy was a sort of representative of India and should have been allowed to continue (even though he was extremely dehydrated and completely exhausted).
It just makes me totally sick, it is about time some people looked at what is really important instead of always trying to "make a name" for themselves and their families.
Breaking a world record is all very well, but if it means a woman and her newborn child being put in extreme danger, that is just going too far.
That poor little boy! Dehydration is very painfull, Thats child abuse plain and simple!!!
How pathetic that these "wannabe" parents put their children to such extremes...They have no regard for "life" as most of us see it... 
What kind of sicko parents do this? What patient allows this?
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